Date:         Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:28:46 -0800
Reply-To:     Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
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From:         Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Port-a-Potty
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
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At 10:43 AM -0500 3/29/00, David Beierl wrote:
>At 21:50 3/28/2000, Katy wrote:
>>Since Dave brought up the subject.....is there an actual camouflaged,
>>port-a-potty,  bolt down, 3rd seat for a Westy?  What an intriguing idea
>>when you have kids. Anybody have one?  Web sites or picts?
>
>My two cents -- ours (Thetford 135) lives behind the passenger front
>seat.  We all the time move it around when stationary depending on where we
>want to put our feet, sit outdoors, etc.  It fits under the overhang of the
>bed if we want it out of the way.  Makes a not-bad ottoman for the rotating
>passenger seat.  If 'twas bolted down it would be in the way a lot (or take
>up seat-locker space if you do the hole-in-the-wall trick).

I'm totally with David on this.  We also have a Thetford 135, and we
can't say enough good things about it.  We built a box to hold the
potty, TP, and the green gunk for it, and it's all very neat and
tidy.  It also lives behind the front passenger seat.  Its mobility
is a great feature, but I'm thinking of making up some sort of
"quick-release" attachment so it can be secured solidly when driving,
probably using the passenger seat belt bolt at the walk-through as an
anchor point.  I don't want a heavy potta-potty flying around in an
accident with two small kids in the back.

T.

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Tobin Copley   Bowen Island, BC, Canada              tobin.copley@ubc.ca

'82 westy 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
'97 son Russell                                   =============
'99 daughter Margaret                            /_| |__| |__|:| clatter
1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi       O|.           .| clatter!
1996: Vancouver to Inuvik, NWT   7,400 km        ~-()-==----()-~
Previous buses: '76 westy deluxe (Daisy), '76 westy standard (Mango)
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